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Their failure to withdraw the review after Blakemore and others pressured them always looked weak. This new statement makes it even more inexplicable. One reason I thought they would let Larun get away with minor changes is that refusing to publish her work and releasing a statement like this...

The GP (Margaret McCarney) was discussed earlier in this thread: https://www.s4me.info/threads/bmj-columnist-margaret-mccartney-sums-up-her-content.5669/#post-102659

Should we avoid using his name, as it says "The writer’s name has been changed."?

Good point. For anyone interested, these are the references: 3. Wessely SC, Hotopf M, Sharpe M: Chronic fatigue and its syndromes. 1998, Oxford , Oxford University Press, 428-Google Scholar 9. Joyce J, Hotopf M, Wessely S: The prognosis of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: a...

I don't know what's going on there. Their CBT CFS review is from 2008, so that's much older.

Also, I wonder if that means that they feel less able to withdraw Larun's review against her wishes? If they're seen as doing something that will damage the reputation of someone who volunteered to do a review for them (and had their review approved for publication) that could be seen as...

I don't see any sign that they've withdrawn it.

Looks like the review was updated today: Date Event Description 30 November 2018 Amended Addition of new published note 'The author team has re‐submitted a revised version of this review following the complaint by Robert Courtney. The Editor in Chief and colleagues recognise that the...

Looks like the review was updated today, after 5:30 - https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003200.pub7/information#history

This thread has been split from here It's after 5:30 on the last day of November, and there doesn't seem to have been any update to the Cochrane review. Edit - they added a new statement...

Quotes of hypocritical bullshit might come in handy at some point!

Yeah, it sounds like Cochrane got pressured into agreeing to let the authors smooth a few rough corners and remove a few transparent falsehoods, and then republish things largely unchanged. Membership of the Cochrane Council here...

Over a thousand views already: Facebook really is the place where things get spread/viewed/etc. With media articles/blogs that say how many shares they get from different sources it is normally facebook that dominates. Thanks to all those working to spread good advocacy info there - seems to...

Now we're a decade after NICE promoted CBT/GET, the professionals and 'experts' are going to be those who have worked within these guidelines. This entrenched power is going to make it extremely difficult to make any progress, especially as it seems that the systems around NICE ended up...

When you click on the 'table of contents' for the article it takes you to this collection of abstracts from a conference: http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/132/Suppl_1 That's quite different to a normal issue of the journal, eg: http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/132/21?current-issue=y I...

I think that, as a patient group, our history makes us unusually intolerant of any sort of positive spin. Given our situation this is a good (even necessary) thing, but I suspect that it's different to the attitude of a lot of campaigning groups.

Looks like that's a reference to general IAPT figures, just based on self-report and with weak criteria for recovery and 'reliable recovery': https://files.digital.nhs.uk/52/D3168F/psych-ther-2017-18-ann-rep.pdf

And also, how anything like 'CBT to help adjust to the condition' in the new NICE guidelines will leave people like Moss-Morris with power over how patients are treated.

"The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Pathway for People with Long-term Physical Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms. Full implementation guidance"...

I just had a look for a facebook profile, and saw that post had only been shared 9 times. I guess that a lot of her concerns will be assessed when there's an attempt to replicate this work with a larger sample. Lots of people have speculated about lots of different things over the years. What...